Happy New Year!! 2016 was quite the year for our family...moved into our new home, had a baby, traveled to the east coast, lost a job...we pretty much covered all of our bases! More specifically we celebrated a lot of amazing things in life with the greatest being Charlotte being born healthy and safely, Rich qualifying for the Boston marathon, watching Joseph, Ella and Julia continue to grow into kind, inquisitive and thoughtful little people, and working hard on our house to turn it into our home. We did also experience some tougher things this year with losing Grandma D as well as my very special Aunt Gloria and Uncle Dennis way too early in life. Rich also did get laid off from his job three days before the new year but we are optimistic that 2017 will bring bigger and better things for his career and we are hopeful that 2017 will continue to bring good health and happiness for our family and all of our loved ones.
After a very fun but busy two weeks of festivities for Christmas we just relaxed on New Year's Eve and hung at home. The kids were all in bed by 7:30 and I'm pretty sure Rich and I were asleep on the couch by 8:45. Charlotte wanted to party a little bit through the night but I managed to keep her partying relatively quiet so the rest of the house got a good night's sleep!
Joseph and Charlotte were up early on New Year's Day and were excited to kick off 2017 together!
We actually celebrated New Year's in the morning with some streamers, balloons, pots and pans and watched the ball drop from the night before (which nobody seemed to mind!) 
Our sweetest little gift from 2016
After a big New Year's breakfast we hiked Torrey Pines which I think has now become a New Year's tradition. Street parking for this hike is very limited and to park in the lot costs $20.00, which we have done before but definitely do not love doing, but we were lucky enough to find street parking so we took that as a sign that 2017 will be a great year!!
Joseph and Ella did awesome hiking, Julia loved the ride and Charlotte slept for the first half hour and then wanted out which is why she is turned around in the ergo (even though this ergo they should only be facing in...gotta do what you gotta do!)
Jules enjoying the ride!
Jules walked the entire beach back to the car and did awesome. It was a bit windy but a beautiful, sunny start to January.
Happy 2017!
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